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Chrinus:
This weapon is all about removing an engineer from his post, plain and simple. Running burst, this weapon can set every component of a ship on fire in one clip if your gunner can aim it (dragonmere's already explained the use with greased and incendiary). While it's a small stack, that's still damage to the component. With enough pressure by the weapon something's bound to fall through the cracks. Be it an engine fails, gun falls, gungineer leaves his post to deal with them, or better yet the hull engineer leaves his post to handle the ever increasing fires. The truth is, at some point the fires delivered have to be dealt with.

Despite a powerful weapon to apply pressure to the opposing team, the gat/flak is just too simple to use and effective to see the banshee take on more than a supporting role, and most players don't bring an airship to support, just kill.

RomanKar:
I use it as the front gun on my Junker, with gat flack on the sides.  Great for the approach and then its really good at getting that trifecta due to its large firing arc.  I've had my guys using greased, but may switch to incendiary or burst, still experimenting.

HamsterIV:
I favor greased when using it as a side weapon on a pyra, but largely abandoned it when I found the Gat/flack overlap trifecta. As for flying support, I find two Gatling guns offer far more support than two or more banshees. A good crew will ignore fire stacks when they are in the middle of a fight, but nobody in their right mind ignores broken hull armor. Even If I don't have killing weapons on my ship there is always the threat of my ally getting in a burst of explosive before they can recover.

RomanKar:
I have found that 2 gats in a trifecta to be unnecessary.  The gat is only good for taking down armor, and one is plenty enough for that job.  The Banshee is perfect for that 3rd gun that can put out pretty good damage, light stuff on fire, and even take down perma hull.  As stated before, it causes chaos on the other ship while I am gat flakking away at it with my side guns. 

I think Banshee is a really good compliment to the gat/flak

HamsterIV:
A two gat trifecta is absolutely necessary when facing a well engineered galleon, and nice to have when backing up a Hwacha fish.

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